Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve memory and stress related syndromes in humans

a transcranial magnetic stimulation and human brain technology, applied in the field of pulsed magnetic fields, can solve the problems of burnout, unhappiness, powerlessness, cynicism, etc., and achieve the effect of improving memory

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-06-14
ERIKSSON PETER +1
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[0037] Thus, one object of this invention is to provide new and better means to improve memory and aid in stress-related syndromes, such as burnout.

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Burnout produces feelings of hopelessness, powerlessness, cynicism, resentment and failure—as well as stagnation and reduced productivity.
These stress reactions can result in levels of unhappiness that eventually threaten a person's job, relationships and health.
Burnout can occur when a person feels unable to meet constant demands, and becomes increasingly overwhelmed and depleted of energy.
The mechanisms involved are still elusive.
However, such suggestions of therapeutic potential of TMS in neurologic disease are very preliminary and much experimental work is still needed to assess their practical significance.
Furthermore, externally generated electric currents cannot be focally directed as the skull dissipates the electricity globally, leading to massive depolarization of cortical and subcortical structures.
However, such coils affect cortical regions of the brain.
However neither this device nor any of the prior art mentions neurogenesis stimulated only by rTMS in healthy humans.
Several researchers have demonstrated improved cell proliferation and the generation of new neurons in various diseased brains but none describe or suggest the application of rTMS to healthy humans for improving memory or aiding in stress-related syndromes, such as burnout.

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[0049] Adult healthy male Sprague-Dawley rats weighting 350-450 g are stimulated once daily with 200 or 1000 rTMS pulses for 14 consecutive days. A 20 Hz stimulus frequency is delivered from a stimulator (Dantec by Dantec Dynamics Ltd. Bristol, U.K.). The waveform is biphasic with a pulse width of 280 microseconds and a stimulus intensity of 98 Ampere per microseconds. A figure-eight coil (winding radius 5 cm) is placed on the awaken rat at the vertex of the skull and the coil is held in direct physical contact to the animal's head. The rats are held by hand and the handle of the figure-eight coil is placed parallel to the vertebral column of the rat. The animals are allowed to adapt to the experimental procedure during a ten day period before the actual experiments are started. During the adaptation period the animals are exposed to gradually longer times in the experimental situation to get used to the rTMS stimuli handling. It is found that after the period of adaptation the anim...

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[0052] The data from Experiment 1 shows an increase in hippocampal progenitor proliferation from rTMS stimulation the highest stimuli dose as compared to control and sham treated animals. We furthermore wanted to know if this increase in proliferation of progenitors results in a higher number of newborn cells that persists with time, and whether this will give rise to an increase of mature neurons in the hippocampus at a later stage. Three to four weeks is the time considered needed for maturation and integration of progenitors into functionally working granule neurons. In Experiment 2, four groups of rats are subjected to the same rTMS treatments as described above and the animals are then allowed to live for four weeks after the last rTMS stimulation (see paradigm in FIG. 1). In the first part of this experiment the brains are analyzed to find the amount of BrdU-positive cells in the GCL of hippocampus. In these animals the BrdU-immunoreactive cells are found throughout the whole ...

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[0054] We next investigate if some intracellular signalling pathways known to be involved in neurogenesis in rats and believed by experts to be involved in humans could be stimulated by rTMS treatment. The p44 and p42 MAP kinases (Erk1 and Erk2) function in a protein cascade that plays a critical role in the regulation of cell growth. When rats are treated with 1000 pulses of rTMS there is an induction of p44 / p42MAPK protein levels from 1.36±0.78 to 7.69±0.87 (relative density; n=5.5; mean±SEM; p<0.001, t-test). Phosphorylated cAMP response element binding protein (pCREB) is a transcription factor acting downstream of MAPK, and which is recently demonstrated to be involved in the regulation of hippocampal neurogenesis 13,14. In particular, the cAMP-CREB cascade has been shown to be involved in the up-regulation of neurogenesis from antidepressants including ECT (M. Nibuya, Nestler E J, Duman R S. J. Neurosci. 16(7):2365 (1996)). One of the target genes for pCREB is brain derived neu...

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Abstract

Use of rTMS having a range of stimuli frequency of 1-100 Hz, with 100-3000 pulses, given at each stimuli-session, and a stimulus intensity of 1-300 Ampere per microseconds, to induce certain electric fields in cells or tissue by the use of pulsed magnetic fields in healthy persons to modulate the proliferation, differentiation and/or migration of neural stem cells or progenitor cells in the adult central nervous system (CNS) especially in the hippocampal formation of dentate gyrus to improve memory and aid in improvement of stress-related syndromes, such as burnout.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This is application claims priority from U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 749,009 filed Dec. 9, 2005, which is incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] The present invention relates to the use of pulsed magnetic fields, such as repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) or a functionally equivalent analogue to induce electric fields in cells or tissue by the use of pulsed magnetic fields, preferably from a handheld magnetic stimulator that upon exposure to a person's brain will induce proliferation, differentiation and / or migration of an embryonic stem cell, adult stem cell, progenitor cell and / or a cell derived from a stem cell or progenitor cell, especially in the hippocampal formation of dentate gyrus. The specific magnetic stimulation of the invention is preferably intended for healthy humans to improve memory or aiding in stress-related syndromes such as b...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61N1/00
CPCA61H2201/10A61N2/006A61N2/02
Inventor ERIKSSON, PETERTHORLIN, THORLEIF
Owner ERIKSSON PETER
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